[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. CLINTON, JAMES, Soldier. Autograph letter signed to George Clinton ("Dear Brother"), Albany, 8 May 1779. 2 pages, 4to, neatly inlaid. Fine letter reporting on affairs along the vulnerable New York frontier: "...I am happy that my building a Block House at Sacandoga...met with your approbation." He then urges newly raised troops be sent "with the utmost Despatch, that they may be able to relieve the different Detachments of Continental troops, that Garrison the Posts on the Frontiers before we march, which I have reason to expect will be in a few days." He inquires about funds for the relief of the "distressed Inhabitants, of the German Flatts" and other communities affected by the fighting on ther frontier. He reports that Captain McKean has been recommended to take "command of the Drafts raised in Tryon County at Post," requests a list of the Officers "that I may be able to assign them to their relative commands," and adds "I should have sent the Indian prisoners to Poughkeepsies long since," but "will detain them here" for the time being. -- CLINTON, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed to Colonel [Samuel] Whiting, "Commanding Connecticut Militia," n.p., 7 June 1779, 1 page, 4to, small tears not affecting text. Fine letter in the wake of Sir Henry Clinton's expedition up the Hudson, relaying George Washington's decision to dismiss the Connecticut militia, "being no longer necessary," "and at the same time to thank them...for their alacrity in marching to the assistance of the Continental troops," and for "turning out for the defence of their Common Cause when the enemies of America were attempting to distress & ravage the country. The Enemy are still at Verplancks Point [near Peekskill] and Stony Point fortifying the latter," so Washington wants the militia kept "in a most powerful readiness to march upon an Emergency at a minute's warning..." -- KNOX, HENRY, General. Autograph letter signed as Secretary of War to John Lash, 15 May 1790, 2 pages, folio. Informing him that "it is not in my power to place any person whatever on the pension list, Congress only can grant your relief in your case..." Together 3 items. (3)

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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. CLINTON, JAMES, Soldier. Autograph letter signed to George Clinton ("Dear Brother"), Albany, 8 May 1779. 2 pages, 4to, neatly inlaid. Fine letter reporting on affairs along the vulnerable New York frontier: "...I am happy that my building a Block House at Sacandoga...met with your approbation." He then urges newly raised troops be sent "with the utmost Despatch, that they may be able to relieve the different Detachments of Continental troops, that Garrison the Posts on the Frontiers before we march, which I have reason to expect will be in a few days." He inquires about funds for the relief of the "distressed Inhabitants, of the German Flatts" and other communities affected by the fighting on ther frontier. He reports that Captain McKean has been recommended to take "command of the Drafts raised in Tryon County at Post," requests a list of the Officers "that I may be able to assign them to their relative commands," and adds "I should have sent the Indian prisoners to Poughkeepsies long since," but "will detain them here" for the time being. -- CLINTON, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed to Colonel [Samuel] Whiting, "Commanding Connecticut Militia," n.p., 7 June 1779, 1 page, 4to, small tears not affecting text. Fine letter in the wake of Sir Henry Clinton's expedition up the Hudson, relaying George Washington's decision to dismiss the Connecticut militia, "being no longer necessary," "and at the same time to thank them...for their alacrity in marching to the assistance of the Continental troops," and for "turning out for the defence of their Common Cause when the enemies of America were attempting to distress & ravage the country. The Enemy are still at Verplancks Point [near Peekskill] and Stony Point fortifying the latter," so Washington wants the militia kept "in a most powerful readiness to march upon an Emergency at a minute's warning..." -- KNOX, HENRY, General. Autograph letter signed as Secretary of War to John Lash, 15 May 1790, 2 pages, folio. Informing him that "it is not in my power to place any person whatever on the pension list, Congress only can grant your relief in your case..." Together 3 items. (3)

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Please note that the Henry Knox is an LS, not an ALS.